Jason Glashauser (Level I)
Jason Glashauser teaches pre-K to 6th-grade general music for Clinton City Schools in Clinton, Tennessee. Jason was named a CMA Foundation Music Teacher of Excellence in 2022 and 2023 and received a Lilly Endowment Teacher Creativity Fellowship in 2016. Jason is a member of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, where he is a certified teacher educator. He is also a member of the National Association for Music Education, the Tennessee Music Educators Association, the Eastern Tennessee General Music Educators Association, and the International Horn Society. He is also the president of the Southern Appalachian AOSA chapter.
Betsy Carter (Level II)
Betsy Carter is an Orff Music specialist at Snowden School in Memphis, TN, where she teaches grades K-5. She is a 2023 CMA Foundation Music Teacher of Excellence. Betsy is also an AOSA Orff Pedagogy Teacher Educator and has taught Orff Level I and II Basic Pedagogy at Lee University, and Level I at Anderson University and The University of Memphis. Betsy has presented workshops at the AOSA National Conference, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee MEA Conferences, and for Orff Chapters in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Georgia. She has served as an Orff Mentor teacher and curriculum writer for Memphis Shelby County Schools for 10 years and currently serves as the Memphis Chapter AOSA President. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music, Betsy completed her Orff Levels at the University of Memphis, masterclasses at Trinity University and Anderson University, and her apprenticeship at Anderson University. Betsy is a National Board Certified Teacher in Early and Middle Childhood Music and has written several articles for the Orff Echo. Her specialties are curriculum development, grant writing, and community partnerships. She is a co-creator of the Side by Side Orff Orchestra partnership with the Memphis Symphony and led the project's first performance in 2015. When not teaching Orff, Betsy also performs in the trumpet section of the Memphis Symphony.
Daniel Johnson (Level III)
Daniel Johnson is a Professor of Music Education at the University of North Carolina Wilmington where he coordinates the undergraduate and graduate music education programs. Having taught as a Fulbright Scholar at the Orff-Institute in Salzburg, Austria, he is an international authority on Orff-Schulwerk and regularly presents at teacher-education courses and workshops across the country and abroad. During the past three decades, his teaching experience has spanned the PK - university gamut with a focus on general music education.
James "Andy" Goodman (Recorder)
J. A. Goodman is an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri–St. Louis where he serves as Coordinator for Music Education and teaches elementary music education courses and studio organ. With more than 35 years of K-16+ teaching experience, he is an active clinician in music education – especially in developing listening skills, teaching recorder in Orff levels training courses, and is the past-president of the Idaho Orff Chapter of the American Orff Schulwerk Association.
Jennifer Lucas (Movement)
Jennifer Lucas holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from Southeast Missouri State University, and a Master of Arts in Education from Lindenwood University. A 29-year veteran of Missouri public schools, she teaches K-5th grade general music in O’Fallon, Missouri, for the Fort Zumwalt School District. She is also the director of the choir and instrumental ensemble at her school. She is an instructor for the American Orff-Schulwerk Association’s teacher education certification program and has served on faculty for Orff-Schulwerk teacher education courses at Northeast State University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee. Jennifer has presented professional development for her local district and is an active member of her local St. Louis AOSA chapter.